[ydl-gen] Scilab for linux ppc

[Warren Nagourney]

Hi Derick,

I downloaded the sources from www.scilab.org and attempted to compile  
them under OS X (using gcc 4). They claimed to be configured for a  
general unix distribution, so it should have worked (I ran configure  
first and it seemed to detect the system fine). I can try the same  
thing on my linux box and see whether it would work (the problem was  
an incompatibility between some Apple header and a scilab header file).

Could it be obtained using yum? I thought scilab was a little too  
arcane for the standard yum repositories.

Thanks.

-wn



On Dec 7, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> Hi Warren:
>
> Questions:
> * Did you download the source of all the dependencies of this program
> and compile them from within the version of YDL you are using?
>   Consider that this suggestion may not be necessary if there are ppc
> versions of those dependencies, you can do a quick check of that by
> using yum.
> Note you can check for scilab's dependencies by exploring scilab's
> mirrors and checking their readme docs.
>
>  Search for scilab dependencies using yum:
> # yum search "*libc.so.6*"
> See what yum finds out... if it's available, install it with yum.
>
> * The above completed, attempt the recompilation of the source for  
> scilab.
>
> Maybe, just maybe, all the above has already been done for you.  Check
> using yum.  Same process as above.
>
> #yum search "*scilab*"
>
> If yum finds anything, then it'll report that it is available, then  
> do:
>
> #yum install "*scilab*"
>
> if it is found, then yum will install the requisite dependencies  
> for you.
>
> Good Luck... Derick.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --
>
> Warren Nagourney wrote:
>> Can anyone give me some idea where I might get the latest version
>> (4.0) of scilab for ppc linux? The main site doesn't have a binary
>> distribution and my attempt to compile it failed (after about 1/2  
>> hour).
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Warren Nagourney
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